It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

… Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself for being insulted and denied, by reyling on the equity of the centuries...

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

Rather than demolish an abandoned warehouse, why not just cover it with graffiti and call it art?

I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it...

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and...

Shigemori’s body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

I don’t have technique because I never learnt any.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Något av det viktigaste i all konst: att överlåta en anständig del åt läsaren, betraktaren, den medverkande. Det ska finnas en tom plats vid det dukade bordet. Den är hans.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

All great art is a form of complaint

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art of war. It becomes one who is called to be a mariner, and...

L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu’est l’homme, de ce qu’il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n’est pas tant à cause de l’homme...

Art is their weapon against forgetting.

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to “overcome” doubt.

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu’elle ne vit pas qu’il ne fallait rien définir, rien comprendre, rien limiter, rien préciser, parce que tout ce qui est...

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause–a contract with yourself through the object you look...

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from...

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

We crafted everything that hurt us into art.

Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.

Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant’s father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” at any...

Laugh, if thou art wise

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife’s barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, “It was enough to...

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Everything you can imagine is real.

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back,...

Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the sky, filtered through a ghostly veil, would prove so profoundly right? I admit...

In art the best is good enough.

Not to admire is all the art I know.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters